Meaning

4 senses
  1. Without grace.

    lacking grace; clumsy

  2. Lacking gracefulness.

    lacking graciousness

  3. Without the grace of God.

  4. (archaic)Unfortunate.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. She made a graceless exit from the meeting after realizing her presentation had critical errors.

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  2. The graceless lummox stumbled into the room, knocking over a lamp on his way in.

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  3. The rookie dancer's movements, though energetic, were still a bit graceless compared to the seasoned veterans'.

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  4. His attempt at a formal bow was so graceless that he nearly stumbled over his own feet.

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Origin

From Middle English graceles; equivalent to grace + -less.

From Middle English graceles; equivalent to grace + -less.

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Forms

more graceless, most graceless
Comparativemore graceless Lesson
Superlativemost graceless Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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